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Burn is portrayed by Peter Berinato in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels. Winter Wheat, a musical about the ratification of the 19th Amendment in Tennessee, premiered in 2016 after its original version had a limited run in 2014; Harry Burn, his mother Febb, and his younger brother Jack, are major characters. The play was performed again in 2020.
He credits the influence of his mother for changing his vote to support female suffrage. His vote broke the tie in the Tennessee legislature, causing Tennessee to pass the amendment. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, making it the law of the land.
Harry T. Burn (1895–1977), Tennessee legislator who broke the deadlock on the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and gave women the right to vote in the United States, worked as the president of the First National Bank of Rockwood from 1951 to 1965. [16]
Tennessee was the last needed state to ratify the Amendment. But it only passed after a Tennessee legislator, Harry Burn, changed his vote to "yes" after he got a scolding letter from his mother.
On August 18, 1920, State Rep. Harry T. Burn of Niota cast the deciding vote in the Tennessee General Assembly to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Burn credited a letter from his mother, Febb Ensminger Burn, for his decision to vote in favor of the amendment.
The Nineteenth Amendment vote comes down to a single vote from Senator Harry T. Burn, who is convinced to change his vote from a "Nay" to an "Aye" at the last minute after receiving a telegram from his mother, Phoebe, who reveals that she blames Wilson for her husband's death in the War but lacks the ability to vote against him ("A Letter From ...
It was officially ratified on August 26, 1920, shortly after ratification by Tennessee, the thirty-sixth state to do so. The Tennessee legislature ratified the 19th Amendment by the single vote of a legislator ( Harry T. Burn ) who had opposed the amendment but changed his position after his mother sent him a telegram saying "Dear Son, Hurrah ...
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